HSAR 252: Roman Architecture
Paper Topics: Discovering the Roman Provinces and Designing a Roman City. Professor Kleiner presents the three options for the course's term paper, which fall into two main categories: a research paper or a project to design a Roman city. For the research paper, she suggests cities and monuments not covered or mentioned briefly in the lectures, which embody some of the themes and issues raised in the course. Such topics include, in the Eastern Empire, the Roman cities of Corinth and Gerasa (Jerash), the Library of Celsus at Ephesus, and the Temple of Bel and the tower tombs at Palmyra. In the West, possible subjects are the Villa of the Papyri at Herculaneum; funerary architecture in Pompeii; a Roman villa at Fishbourne; Roman baths at Bath; and the private houses at Vaison-la-Romaine. Students may also study a site or monument of their choice, provided that the topic is pre-approved by Professor Kleiner. The lecture concludes with an overview of the "Design a Roman City" option, in which students draw or generate plans and other representations of a hypothetical Roman city of 10,000 inhabitants, accompanied by a paper supporting their proposal.
Paper Topics: Discovering the Roman Provinces and Designing a Roman City |
Time | Lecture Chapters |
[00:00:00] | 1. Introduction to the Term Paper: Requirements and Resources |
[00:04:36] | 2. Option 1: Research Paper and Corinth |
[00:15:21] | 3. The Library of Celsus at Ephesus |
[00:23:28] | 4. Gerasa and Palmyra |
[00:37:24] | 5. The Villa of the Papyri at Herculaneum and the Getty Villa |
[00:46:48] | 6. Further Research Options in England, Israel, Italy, and France |
[00:55:57] | 7. Option 2: Select a Building, Select a Theme |
[00:57:15] | 8. Tower Tombs at Palmyra |
[00:58:19] | 9. Option 3: Design Your Own Roman City |
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